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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers. This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves. The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site. Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – installing the BuddyPress suite


  1. Upload the contents of the BuddyPress archive to /wp-content/plugins/.

  2. Move the /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ folder up to /wp-content/bp-themes.

  3. Enable the BuddyPress plugin in your WordPress MU Site Admin panel.

  4. Now go to the BuddyPress section of the admin panel—it should be listed on the left-hand side of the navigation bar.

  5. You should be able to leave most of the defaults on the BuddyPress Settings page unchanged, although you may want to alter the default gravatar and change the Base profile group name to something meaningful.

  6. The Component Setup page allows you to turn on and off individual BuddyPress components. We want to use them all on SlayerCafe, so we won't make any changes on this screen.

  7. We now need to set up the forum membership. On the Forums Setup page, enter the URL you used for your bbPress forums. For most people, this will be http://SITEADDRESS.COM/bbpress.

  8. Enter the username and password of the keyholder account...